Is drooling serious when a child has hand, foot and mouth disease?

Hand, foot and mouth disease is still quite serious, because it is too serious and may kill people, and there are many reports about this across the country. Especially if you have a fever, you must quickly reduce the fever, and go to check it in time with the medication**.

Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is an infectious disease in children, also known as exanthematous vesicular stomatitis. It mostly occurs in children under 5 years old, and can cause herpes in the hands, feet, oral cavity and other parts, and a small number of children can cause complications such as myocarditis, pulmonary edema, and aseptic meningoencephalitis. In some cases of severe disease, if the disease progresses rapidly, it can lead to death.

The main clinical symptom of the disease is herpes on the mucous membranes of the hands, feet, and the mouth, or the formation of ulcers after ulceration. Hand, foot and mouth disease is an infectious disease caused by an enterovirus.

After infection with enterovirus, children usually start with fever, which is usually about 38. Scattered herpes on the oral mucosa, the size of a grain of rice, with significant pain (Figure 1); Rice-sized blisters appear on the palms (Figure 2) or soles of the feet (Figure 3), and the buttocks may be affected. There is an inflammatory redness around the herpes and less fluid inside the blisters.

Patients with mild symptoms such as cough, runny nose and drooling may have symptoms similar to upper respiratory tract infection in the early stage, and some children may have nausea and vomiting. Fever 1 to 2 days after the appearance of a rash, usually on the hands, feet, buttocks, or oral mucosal herpes. Some children do not have fever and only present with rash on the hands, feet, and buttocks or herpangina, which is mild.

Most children recover within a week of a drop in body temperature, resolution of rash, and recovery.

Meningitis, encephalitis, encephalomyelitis, pulmonary edema, circulatory disorders, etc. occur in severe cases about 1-5 days after the onset of the disease, and a very small number of cases are critically ill and can cause death, and surviving cases can leave sequelae. Severe patients present with poor spirit, drowsiness, irritability, headache, vomiting, and even coma; limb tremor, myoclonus, eye movement disorders; shortness of breath, dyspnea, cyanosis of the lips, cough, cough up white, pink, or bloody frothy sputum; pale complexion, cold extremities, cyanosis of the fingers (toes); The pulse is shallow or weakened or even disappears, and blood pressure rises or falls.

If infants and young children have the above uncomfortable symptoms, it is recommended to go to a regular hospital for treatment, so as not to delay the condition and get effective in time**.

At first, I also thought it was a minor illness.

Later, I went to the hospital and was directly arranged to be hospitalized.

Today, I received a ** saying that someone will come to my house for a visit and investigation in a few days.

It's serious.

There is no need to worry too much, hand, foot and mouth disease has been found for several years, and doctors will have a way to treat it, the most important thing is to pay attention to hygiene and wash your hands more.

It doesn't seem to be very serious for the time being, so let's feed the medicine quickly. At that time, we were fed Pudilan oral liquid and cefaclor.

Go to the hospital and see, hand, foot and mouth disease is contagious, and it's quite serious.

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